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SANGER, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Like galore schoolhouse districts, Sanger Unified is gearing up for the caller schoolhouse twelvemonth - but this twelvemonth marks an breathtaking milestone.
In conscionable 2 weeks, module and unit volition invited seventh-grade students to the caller John F. Kennedy Middle School, located close adjacent to Sanger West. The Sanger Education Complex has been location to Sanger West High School for the past six years.
Sanger Unified Superintendent Dr. Dennis Wiechmann says the request for a 2nd mediate schoolhouse was crucial, arsenic the territory has experienced important maturation implicit the past fewer years.
"We person been increasing close astir 100 to 150 students a twelvemonth successful the past mates of years. Previous to that, we were seeing maturation of 300, 350 students a year," helium explained.
Dr. Wiechmann says these students are coming from Sanger West feeder schools. This task was made imaginable acknowledgment to the transition of some Measures S and M.
"One of the benefits of opening up a caller school, speech from the facilities, which are nice, but it gives students the quality to enactment successful activities," Wiechmann shared.
He says this volition treble the fig of students who volition present person the accidental to play sports, articulation the band, oregon beryllium portion of the cheer squad.
"The students are excited to person their ain team," added Principal Soki Siv. She, on with module and staff, has spent the summertime moving to acceptable the school's code and standards. "Just to hole them not lone for precocious schoolhouse but besides aboriginal assemblage and career."
The archetypal time of schoolhouse for Sanger Unified is Aug. 20. Next schoolhouse year, Kennedy Middle volition beryllium unfastened to some seventh and eighth graders.
